Tiny clip-on camera for lifelogging

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The tiny clip-on Memoto camera takes two photos a minute. The Memoto app displays the GPSd photos on a timeline, so you can go back and see where you were at any point in the past.

The camera has no buttons. (That's right, no buttons.) As long as you wear the camera, it is constantly taking pictures. It takes two geotagged photos a minute with recorded orientation so that the app can show them upright no matter how you are wearing the camera. And it’s weather protected, so you don’t have to worry about it in inclement weather.

The camera and the app work together to give you pictures of every single moment of your life, complete with information on when you took it and where you were. This means that you can revisit any moment of your past.

I think it should have a pulse sensor on it so that when your heart rate increases, it starts shooting video.

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Yep, this one – which also sounds like it has a better approach to when it takes pictures: “…uses an accelerometer and light sensors to snap an image when a person enters a new environment, and an infrared sensor to take one when it detects the body heat of a person in front of the wearer.”

This tech (as well as google glass) reminds me of the TV show Black Mirror episode: The Entire History Of You… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWN9WEU2NP8 That said, the first creepy hipster comes up to me wearing one of these cameras, is going to be asked kindly to remove it immediately, followed by me slapping it off their faces should they refuse. if you wanna take pictures of me, it’s common courtesy to ask permission first. Tying this into the cloud or google/facebook/apple is even worse, combined with biometrics and shadow profiles used by these services, doesn’t leave much room for privacy, even for people who have never signed up.

It depends on how frightened the victim is by the threat and if a reasonable person would be frightened. “I’m gonna whip your ass if you don’t get your camera out of my face.” may not be enough to constitute assault.

Neat. I think I might have one photo a day that even I’m not bored with, but still neat.

However, I wonder how much memory it has – I spend almost my entire day away from wifi.

Also, I have no smart phone except for a business one that I’m not allowed to use for personal use. Windows app? Website?

And, can I just download every photo or are my photos captive on their servers?

Honestly I’d buy one right this minute if it had a microSD slot and/or a USB interface and didn’t have to be tied to an online account – I don’t even care if it has a radio. Not really thrilled with another thing that is tied to some account, especially given that there are serious privacy issues here – their server will have a GPS track of your location constantly.

Unless you glue it to the middle of your forehead*, all your memories will consist of people staring at a point way over your head while they talk to you. That said, it’s a nice compact design- I could thing of a lot of uses for it.

if it’s anything like the gopro cameras (which i assume it is) the images are stored sequentially and placed in a folder so all you’ve got to do is load it into after effects or premiere as a sequence and you’re good to go.

honestly, i’d rather have a gopro than this no frills time lapse camera.

either way there would be very little time involved in cataloging data. more time would be spent actually shooting the images throughout the day. seems kind of gimmicky though. not for real video producing enthusiasts.

Here’s my latest lifelog, showing me lifelogging — it’s a photo of a computer screen showing a set of photos in an image catalog, each photo showing a similar image of the same screen as it was 30 seconds prior to the time the latest photo was taken. The photos in the photos of the catalog on the screen each show a screen with a photo catalog, infinitely regressing down to the pixel level.

Thanks for writing about us! I love the idea of the device shooting video when your heart rate increases. Maybe it would be possible if we could get the camera to speak with a device like Basis (https://mybasis.com/ ).

I’m not thrilled that it automatically posts it to their cloud service, available for a fee. I want my own image history to be mine and mine alone. I’m willing to store the 4GB/day on my own.

The idea of having a visual record of your entire life is quite thrilling once you realize its broad ramifications. I saw Gordon Bell a few years ago discussing his own system for storing everything, including images from his life. He said his colleague discovered later he had a visual record of the first time he met his girlfriend, who obviously wasn’t his girlfriend at the time.

He wrote about his system in his book Total Recall: http://totalrecallbook.com/